Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Passion Quotes

Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

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I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

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There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

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There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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